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On the bus with a very chillled puppy. Family get on and start screaming.

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ModreB · 30/09/2018 17:38

I know that a lot of people don't like dogs. And that's OK. But having a 15 week old dog, we're trying to socialise, we took him on the bus. A family got on about 3 stops in, and every single one screamed at the sight of him, asleep under my seat, and spent the journey squeaking every time he moved ie turned over, or scratched, or shook his head.

I think, why? If you don't like dogs, that's fine, he wasn't bothering people, he was asleep, under full control and not interested in them in the slightest.

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kaytee87 · 30/09/2018 17:40

They actually screamed? All of them?

What did they say when you asked why they were screaming?

HoleyCoMoley · 30/09/2018 17:40

They were just showing off, have you got a pic of puppy for us, try and forget it, there are idiots everywhere Sad

AsAProfessionalFekko · 30/09/2018 17:44

Scared screaming or excited squealing?

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ModreB · 30/09/2018 17:46

No, scared screaming. It was bizarre. It was as if they thought he was going to rip them limb from limb.

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AltogetherAndrews · 30/09/2018 17:50

My autistic ds would behave like that, because he is scared of dogs, and no matter how hard we try to help him overcome this, there will be an idiot with a dog who lets them jump all over him or run rampage and do nothing even though he is screaming in terror, undoing all outer hard work. As a result, my younger dd is also now scared of dogs, from watching her brother. So yes, they would be really jumpy, even if your dog was perfectly behaved, and I probably would come across that way too, because I would be trying to manage him, and avoid a meltdown. Sometimes there is a reason why people behave in certain ways, that you don’t have access to. Stop taking it so personally.

HildaZelda · 30/09/2018 17:53

I'm sorry, but I loled at "We're trying to socialise, so we took him on the bus". I'm just having a sudden vision on you popping into Weatherspoons with him for a quick sociable pint Grin
Take him for a walk!

AsAProfessionalFekko · 30/09/2018 17:54

Is this your doggy?

ALongHardWinter · 30/09/2018 17:56

I'm not a dog owner,but I love dogs. I've witnessed some ridiculous reactions from people on buses if there's a dog on board. Maybe not actually screaming,but refusing to sit within 10 feet of it,and looking terrified if it so much as moves. Anyone would think it was a tiger on the bus,not a dog.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 30/09/2018 18:01

It's good to get them used to different means of transport while they are young.

I do squeal when I discover a puppy under my seat on the bus as well. And I go in for a cuddle after that though.

Unless your puppy is Cudjo in training?

POPholditdown · 30/09/2018 18:07

We need a photo to decide if their screams were justified, OP!

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ModreB · 30/09/2018 18:14

Here you go.

On the bus with a very chillled puppy. Family get on and start screaming.
On the bus with a very chillled puppy. Family get on and start screaming.
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Blackberry10 · 30/09/2018 18:23

I calm dog would it bother me as all op but unfortunetly for every 10 good dog owners you get 1 bad and some people kids especially don’t remember the good ones. If you were to ask my DS he would mention the dog who jumped up knocked hilmobet and pinned him to the ground when he was 4 or dog who ran off with his ball and the owner saying we were the unreasonable ones when we wanted it back (would have had no issue if the owner got to dog to drop it and then them bring it back)
Or the dog who urinated on our picnic on a dog free beach with the owner laughing.
Yet he has met loads of lovely dogs but those are the ones that stick in his mind

HoleyCoMoley · 30/09/2018 18:23

Terrifying Grin

ForalltheSaints · 30/09/2018 18:37

I had a dog jump in my pushchair as a young child. At their age I might not have screamed but would have felt very uncomfortable for the whole journey, and if on a train I would have insisted on moving to the next carriage at the earliest opportunity. Even if your dog was on a lead.

Thankfully nowadays I would just be curious at the dog's behaviour.

BMW6 · 30/09/2018 18:50

I was on a bus with my dog once and a woman got on, saw my dog and told the driver that she was terrified and I should be put off the bus as she needed to get on.
He told her to get the next bus.

Singingtherapy · 30/09/2018 18:53

Adorable! Although I suppose there's no accounting for irrational fears. Spiders are even calmer than puppies and I'd scream if there was one of them on a bus!

Spudlet · 30/09/2018 18:56

Clearly a terrifying doom hound. You had better post him to me pronto, so I can snuggle and squoosh him to within an inch of his very life tame him Grin

WhenIWasAYoungWarthog · 30/09/2018 18:57

I don’t think being scared of dogs is an irrational fear. Most kids/ adults who are scared of dogs are like that because they’ve been bitten/ chased/ jumped on by a strange dog when they were out minding their own business.

NotMyCircusMonkeys · 30/09/2018 18:59

I was once on a busy train and was sitting in a window seat with a table. A man sat down next to me and got a hell of a fright 5 minutes when the 35kg Labrador I had under the table suddenly shifted position Grin The man had no idea he was under there and I had no idea he didn't notice him when he sat down! He took it very well thankfully and we had a good laugh about it.

LinoleumBlownapart · 30/09/2018 19:01

I can understand one ASC child screaming, my son wouldn't have screamed as a youngster but he would have been very very (irrationally in some eyes) scared. He has since overcome his fear from a kind owner and then we got a dog.
One person's fear is very different to a whole family screaming though! A whole family screaming every time a dog moved, that's seriously anti-social and attention seeking.

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ModreB · 30/09/2018 19:08

It really was strange. It was a mum with 5 children, all of them had the same reaction. Oldest about 10yo, youngest in a buggy.

I understand that people might not like dogs, and as I said, that's ok. He's not allowed to approach anyone, but if they come to him he can say hello.

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clueless101101 · 30/09/2018 19:27

They had no reason to scream but I would have waited for a different bus. I'm highly allergic to dogs and being in a confined space like that would mean I can't breathe very well and I would be biggered until I could get an antihistamine and shower and change my clothes. I have no problem with service dogs on a bus but I would have to wait for the next one. We live in the sticks so that would mean waiting 1 hour. Like I said no need for the screaming though and your puppy is very cute

PatchworkElmer · 30/09/2018 19:33

I love dogs now, but was absolutely terrified when younger- ab Alsatian chased me when I was a small child, then jumped up and pushed me over- it was horrendous.

I’m fine now, but as a child I would’ve been very tearful and wary of the dog. As an adult I still feel that fear, but only with Alsatians.

applesauce1 · 30/09/2018 19:36

Does your dog resemble the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

almondsareforevermore · 30/09/2018 19:47

Muslims often don’t like dogs. When I took my puppy on a train our reserved seats were across the aisle from a Pakistani mother and children so I apologised and asked if they were uncomfortable about the dog. They said no, as long as dog didn’t touch them and I made sure he didn’t.